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Yogamullaval

1971 film directed by C. V. Shankar

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ8054348 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yogamullaval is a 1971 Indian Malayalam-language film, written and directed by C. V. Shankar and produced by U. Parvathibhai. The film stars Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai, Shobha, Baby and C. V. Shankar. The film had musical score by R. K. Shekhar.

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Soundtrack

The music was composed by R. K. Shekhar and the lyrics were written by Sreekumaran Thampi.

Editorial summary

“Yogamullaval” enters the record as 1971 film directed by C. V. Shankar. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yogamullaval, film and directed can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yogamullaval, film and directed.
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“Yogamullaval” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yogamullaval, film and directed provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8054348. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yogamullaval” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.